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RACE REPORT: Ironman Coeur d’Alene AUGUST CLUB MEETING
Date: June, 2009 Location: Coeur d’Alene, ID
By Brian Stone
August 20th, Thursday
To start from the beginning, I have to go back to Ironman Arizona which my buddy Matt and I
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did in April 2008. I looked back at the race report I wrote for that Ironman and noticed
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I left out the fact that, I said, “I will never do an Ironman again,” then came June 22, 2008, the day of the 2008 Ironman Coeur d’Alene. I read a few reports/reviews of the race online, heard how great of a town it is and how nice the weather is (compared to the 97 degrees we had in Tempe) and that’s when I said to myself, well maybe Coeur d’Alene will be better than Arizona. I think Matt was already itching to do another Ironman so he pretty much talked me into signing up which I did a few hours after registration opened the day after the 2008 race. For those of you that don’t know, the 2,500 or so spots to most Ironman events usually sell out within a few days, this race was no exception and sold out 4 days after registration opened. I was able to talk my “newer” triathlon friend, Kerry, into signing up for the race who in turn talked Peter into signing up as well. Kim, who I had done a lot of training with in the past signed up also but had to back out from it later, unfortunately. So Matt, Kerry, Peter and I started training in early November 2008, mainly just some hard and hilly bike
Race morning, Brian and Matt, taking care of of special needs bags. rides of 50 to 80 miles. This ended up giving us a pretty good base when we started the “real” training in January. I laid out a decent training schedule for myself which basically just added extra miles to the training I did for Ironman Arizona. To top it off, the four of us also decided to do Ironman California 70.3 (a half Ironman) in continued on page 3